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AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem

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121 points tylerg | 6 comments | 11 Apr 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source | bottom
1. grahac ◴[11 Apr 25 21:29 UTC] No.43658821[source]▶
Anyone here see the CS50 peanut butter and jelly problem in person?
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2. csours ◴[11 Apr 25 22:03 UTC] No.43659150[source]▶
Not in that course, but I've done it at a "STEM" day; it's just about the most fun I've ever had teaching.
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3. rileymat2 ◴[11 Apr 25 22:43 UTC] No.43659495[source]▶
I had a middle school art teacher do it in roughly 1995.
4. grahac ◴[11 Apr 25 23:35 UTC] No.43659867[source]▶
That's awesome.

I got the sense the professor liked it a ton too. In the videos of this on YouTube you can see the professor really enjoying watching it all go down.

It still is so memorable.

5. ryoshu ◴[12 Apr 25 01:53 UTC] No.43660635[source]▶
We did it in 3rd grade in public school.
6. Nuzzerino ◴[12 Apr 25 02:37 UTC] No.43660830[source]▶
We had this in the 8th grade science class, and IMO it was much better than this Harvard version. Still PB&J with instructions. Teacher had a skeleton named "it". Anytime instructions referenced the word "it", the teacher used the skeleton in place.